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# 267654 19-Jun-2014 gjb

Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 225736 22-Sep-2011 kensmith

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)


# 174689 16-Dec-2007 deischen

Remove hacks to allow libkse to export its symbols in the LIBTHREAD_1_0
version namespace which was needed before the library version was
bumped.


# 174112 30-Nov-2007 deischen

WARNS=3'ify.


# 172491 09-Oct-2007 obrien

Repo copy libpthreads to libkse.
This introduces the WITHOUT_LIBKSE nob,
and changes WITHOUT_LIBPTHREADS to mean with neither threading libs.
Approved by: re(kensmith)


# 165967 12-Jan-2007 imp

Remove 3rd clause, renumber, ok per email


# 156611 12-Mar-2006 deischen

Add compatibility symbol maps. libpthread (.so.1 and .so.2)
used LIBTHREAD_1_0 as its version definition, but now needs
to define its symbols in the same namespace used by libc.
The compatibility hooks allows you to use libraries and
binaries built and linked to libpthread before libc was
built with symbol versioning. The shims can be removed if
libpthread is given a version bump.

Reviewed by: davidxu


# 154248 12-Jan-2006 jasone

In preparation for a new malloc implementation:

* Add posix_memalign().

* Move calloc() from calloc.c to malloc.c. Add a calloc() implementation in
rtld-elf in order to make the loader happy (even though calloc() isn't
used in rtld-elf).

* Add _malloc_prefork() and _malloc_postfork(), and use them instead of
directly manipulating __malloc_lock.

Approved by: phk, markm (mentor)


# 139023 18-Dec-2004 deischen

Use a generic way to back threads out of wait queues when handling
signals instead of having more intricate knowledge of thread state
within signal handling.

Simplify signal code because of above (by David Xu).

Use macros for libpthread usage of pthread_cleanup_push() and
pthread_cleanup_pop(). This removes some instances of malloc()
and free() from the semaphore and pthread_once() implementations.

When single threaded and forking(), make sure that the current
thread's signal mask is inherited by the forked thread.

Use private mutexes for libc and libpthread. Signals are
deferred while threads hold private mutexes. This fix also
breaks www/linuxpluginwrapper; a patch that fixes it is at
http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/kse/linuxpluginwrapper.diff

Fix race condition in condition variables where handling a
signal (pthread_kill() or kill()) may not see a wakeup
(pthread_cond_signal() or pthread_cond_broadcast()).

In collaboration with: davidxu


# 122130 05-Nov-2003 deischen

Don't declare the malloc lock; use the declaration provided in libc.

Noticed by: bde


# 122075 04-Nov-2003 deischen

Add an implementation for pthread_atfork().

Aside from the POSIX requirements for pthread_atfork(), when
fork()ing, take the malloc lock to keep malloc state consistent
in the child.

Reviewed by: davidxu


# 119099 19-Aug-2003 davidxu

Save and restore errno around sigprocmask.


# 118746 10-Aug-2003 davidxu

If thread mode is not activated yet, just call __sys_fork() directly,
otherwise masks all signals until fork() returns, in child process,
we reset library state before restoring signal masks until we reach
a safe to point.

Reviewed by: deischen


# 113658 18-Apr-2003 deischen

Revamp libpthread so that it has a chance of working in an SMP
environment. This includes support for multiple KSEs and KSEGs.

The ability to create more than 1 KSE via pthread_setconcurrency()
is in the works as well as support for PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM threads.
Those should come shortly.

There are still some known issues which davidxu and I are working
on, but it'll make it easier for us by committing what we have.

This library now passes all of the ACE tests that libc_r passes
with the exception of one. It also seems to work OK with KDE
including konqueror, kwrite, etc. I haven't been able to get
mozilla to run due to lack of java plugin, so I'd be interested
to see how it works with that.

Reviewed by: davidxu


# 103419 16-Sep-2002 mini

Make libpthread KSE aware.

Reviewed by: deischen, julian
Approved by: -arch


# 103388 16-Sep-2002 mini

Make the changes needed for libpthread to compile in its new home.
The new libpthread will provide POSIX threading support using KSE.
These files were previously repo-copied from src/lib/libc_r.

Reviewed by: deischen
Approved by: -arch


# 92730 19-Mar-2002 deischen

Add the ability to recognize old references to keys, and return NULL
when old keys are referenced (after pthread_key_delete()) via
pthread_getspecific().


# 80021 20-Jul-2001 jasone

Implement pthread_attr_[gs]etguardsize(). Non-default-size stacks used to
be malloc()ed, but they are now allocated using mmap(), just as the
default-size stacks are. A separate cache of stacks is kept for
non-default-size stacks.

Collaboration with: deischen


# 76336 07-May-2001 knu

Properly copy the P_ALTSTACK flag in struct proc::p_flag to the child
process on fork(2).

It is the supposed behavior stated in the manpage of sigaction(2), and
Solaris, NetBSD and FreeBSD 3-STABLE correctly do so.

The previous fix against libc_r/uthread/uthread_fork.c fixed the
problem only for the programs linked with libc_r, so back it out and
fix fork(2) itself to help those not linked with libc_r as well.

PR: kern/26705
Submitted by: KUROSAWA Takahiro <fwkg7679@mb.infoweb.ne.jp>
Tested by: knu, GOTOU Yuuzou <gotoyuzo@notwork.org>,
and some other people
Not objected by: hackers
MFC in: 3 days


# 75657 18-Apr-2001 deischen

Reinstall the alternate signal stack after a fork.

PR: 25110
Tested by: knu


# 75371 10-Apr-2001 deischen

Clean up a bit. Use the correct TAILQ link when walking the thread
lists to free thread resources after a fork (in the child). Also
remember to free the dead thread list.


# 75369 10-Apr-2001 deischen

To be consistent, use the __weak_reference macro from <sys/cdefs.h>
instead of #pragma weak to create weak definitions.

Suggested by: bde


# 71581 24-Jan-2001 deischen

Add weak definitions for wrapped system calls. In general:

_foo - wrapped system call
foo - weak definition to _foo

and for cancellation points:

_foo - wrapped system call
__foo - enter cancellation point, call _foo(), leave
cancellation point
foo - weak definition to __foo

Change use of global _thread_run to call a function to get the
currently running thread.

Make all pthread_foo functions weak definitions to _pthread_foo,
where _pthread_foo is the implementation. This allows an application
to provide its own pthread functions.

Provide slightly different versions of pthread_mutex_lock and
pthread_mutex_init so that we can tell the difference between
a libc mutex and an application mutex. Threads holding mutexes
internal to libc should never be allowed to exit, call signal
handlers, or cancel.

Approved by: -arch


# 67097 13-Oct-2000 deischen

Implement zero system call thread switching. Performance of
thread switches should be on par with that under scheduler
activations.

o Timing is achieved through the use of a fixed interval
timer (ITIMER_PROF) to count scheduling ticks instead
of retrieving the time-of-day upon every thread switch
and calculating elapsed real time.

o Polling for I/O readiness is performed once for each
scheduling tick instead of every thread switch.

o The non-signal saving/restoring versions of setjmp/longjmp
are used to save and restore thread contexts. This may
allow the removal of _THREAD_SAFE macros from setjmp()
and longjmp() - needs more investigation.

Change signal handling so that signals are handled in the
context of the thread that is receiving the signal. When
signals are dispatched to a thread, a special signal handling
frame is created on top of the target threads stack. The
frame contains the threads saved state information and a new
context in which the thread can run. The applications signal
handler is invoked through a wrapper routine that knows how
to restore the threads saved state and unwind to previous
frames.

Fix interruption of threads due to signals. Some states
were being improperly interrupted while other states were
not being interrupted. This should fix several PRs.

Signal handlers, which are invoked as a result of a process
signal (not by pthread_kill()), are now called with the
code (or siginfo_t if SA_SIGINFO was set in sa_flags) and
sigcontext_t as received from the process signal handler.

Modify the search for a thread to which a signal is delivered.
The search algorithm is now:

o First thread found in sigwait() with signal in wait mask.
o First thread found sigsuspend()'d on the signal.
o Current thread if signal is unmasked.
o First thread found with signal unmasked.

Collapse machine dependent support into macros defined in
pthread_private.h. These should probably eventually be moved
into separate MD files.

Change the range of settable priorities to be compliant with
POSIX (0-31). The threads library uses higher priorities
internally for real-time threads (not yet implemented) and
threads executing signal handlers. Real-time threads and
threads running signal handlers add 64 and 32, respectively,
to a threads base priority.

Some other small changes and cleanups.

PR: 17757 18559 21943
Reviewed by: jasone


# 56888 29-Jan-2000 jasone

Use __strong_reference() instead of __weak_reference() to assure that the
weak symbols of the same name are not used.


# 56698 27-Jan-2000 jasone

Simplify sytem call renaming. Instead of _foo() <-- _libc_foo <-- foo(),
just use _foo() <-- foo(). In the case of a libpthread that doesn't do
call conversion (such as linuxthreads and our upcoming libpthread), this
is adequate. In the case of libc_r, we still need three names, which are
now _thread_sys_foo() <-- _foo() <-- foo().

Convert all internal libc usage of: aio_suspend(), close(), fsync(), msync(),
nanosleep(), open(), fcntl(), read(), and write() to _foo() instead of foo().

Remove all internal libc usage of: creat(), pause(), sleep(), system(),
tcdrain(), wait(), and waitpid().

Make thread cancellation fully POSIX-compliant.

Suggested by: deischen


# 55838 12-Jan-2000 jasone

Track libc's three-tier symbol naming. libc_r must currently implement
the _libc_*() entry points and add *() weak aliases. This will all
change for the better when libc_r becomes libpthread.


# 55194 28-Dec-1999 deischen

-Wall and minor style(9) cleanups.


# 54138 04-Dec-1999 deischen

Change signal handling to conform to POSIX specified semantics.
Before this change, a signal was delivered to each thread that
didn't have the signal masked. Signals also improperly woke up
threads waiting on I/O. With this change, signals are now
handled in the following way:

o If a thread is waiting in a sigwait for the signal,
then the thread is woken up.

o If no threads are sigwait'ing on the signal and a
thread is in a sigsuspend waiting for the signal,
then the thread is woken up.

o In the case that no threads are waiting or suspended
on the signal, then the signal is delivered to the
first thread we find that has the signal unmasked.

o If no threads are waiting or suspended on the signal,
and no threads have the signal unmasked, then the signal
is added to the process wide pending signal set. The
signal will be delivered to the first thread that unmasks
the signal.

If there is an installed signal handler, it is only invoked
if the chosen thread was not in a sigwait.

In the case that multiple threads are waiting or suspended
on a signal, or multiple threads have the signal unmasked,
we wake up/deliver the signal to the first thread we find.
The above rules still apply.

Reported by: Scott Hess <scott@avantgo.com>
Reviewed by: jb, jasone


# 51794 29-Sep-1999 marcel

sigset_t change (part 5 of 5)
-----------------------------

Most of the userland changes are in libc. For both the alpha
and the i386 setjmp has been changed to accomodate for the
new sigset_t. Internally, libc is mostly rewritten to use the
new syscalls. The exception is in compat-43/sigcompat.c

The POSIX thread library has also been rewritten to use the
new sigset_t. Except, that it currently only handles NSIG
signals instead of the maximum _SIG_MAXSIG. This should not
be a problem because current applications don't use any
signals higher than NSIG.

There are version bumps for the following libraries:
libdialog
libreadline
libc
libc_r
libedit
libftpio
libss

These libraries either a) have one of the modified structures
visible in the interface, or b) use sigset_t internally and
may cause breakage if new binaries are used against libraries
that don't have the sigset_t change. This not an immediate
issue, but will be as soon as applications start using the
new range to its fullest.

NOTE: libncurses already had an version bump and has not been
given one now.

NOTE: doscmd is a real casualty and has been disconnected for
the moment. Reconnection will eventually happen after
doscmd has been fixed. I'm aware that being the last one
to touch it, I'm automaticly promoted to being maintainer.
According to good taste this means that I will receive a
badge which either will be glued or mechanically stapled,
drilled or otherwise violently forced onto me :-)

NOTE: pcvt/vttest cannot be compiled with -traditional. The
change cause sys/types to be included along the way which
contains the const and volatile modifiers. I don't consider
this a solution, but more a workaround.


# 50476 27-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 50083 20-Aug-1999 jb

When checking if there is a stack to free, observe the fact that it
might have been mmapped, and if so, passing the pointer to free() is
really not a good idea.

[ In the next millenium, when I've taken over the world, I'm going
to ban 8 character tabs. You've been warned. ]


# 49439 05-Aug-1999 deischen

Add RCS IDs to those files without them.
Fix copyrights (s/REGENTS/AUTHOR).

Suggested by: tg
Approved by: jb


# 48046 20-Jun-1999 jb

In the words of the author:

o The polling mechanism for I/O readiness was changed from
select() to poll(). In additon, a wrapped version of poll()
is now provided.

o The wrapped select routine now converts each fd_set to a
poll array so that the thread scheduler doesn't have to
perform a bitwise search for selected fds each time file
descriptors are polled for I/O readiness.

o The thread scheduler was modified to use a new queue (_workq)
for threads that need work. Threads waiting for I/O readiness
and spinblocks are added to the work queue in addition to the
waiting queue. This reduces the time spent forming/searching
the array of file descriptors being polled.

o The waiting queue (_waitingq) is now maintained in order of
thread wakeup time. This allows the thread scheduler to
find the nearest wakeup time by looking at the first thread
in the queue instead of searching the entire queue.

o Removed file descriptor locking for select/poll routines. An
application should not rely on the threads library for providing
this locking; if necessary, the application should use mutexes
to protect selecting/polling of file descriptors.

o Retrieve and use the kernel clock rate/resolution at startup
instead of hardcoding the clock resolution to 10 msec (tested
with kernel running at 1000 HZ).

o All queues have been changed to use queue.h macros. These
include the queues of all threads, dead threads, and threads
waiting for file descriptor locks.

o Added reinitialization of the GC mutex and condition variable
after a fork. Also prevented reallocation of the ready queue
after a fork.

o Prevented the wrapped close routine from closing the thread
kernel pipes.

o Initialized file descriptor table for stdio entries at thread
init.

o Provided additional flags to indicate to what queues threads
belong.

o Moved TAILQ initialization for statically allocated mutex and
condition variables to after the spinlock.

o Added dispatching of signals to pthread_kill. Removing the
dispatching of signals from thread activation broke sigsuspend
when pthread_kill was used to send a signal to a thread.

o Temporarily set the state of a thread to PS_SUSPENDED when it
is first created and placed in the list of threads so that it
will not be accidentally scheduled before becoming a member
of one of the scheduling queues.

o Change the signal handler to queue signals to the thread kernel
pipe if the scheduling queues are protected. When scheduling
queues are unprotected, signals are then dequeued and handled.

o Ensured that all installed signal handlers block the scheduling
signal and that the scheduling signal handler blocks all
other signals. This ensures that the signal handler is only
interruptible for and by non-scheduling signals. An atomic
lock is used to decide which instance of the signal handler
will handle pending signals.

o Removed _lock_thread_list and _unlock_thread_list as they are
no longer used to protect the thread list.

o Added missing RCS IDs to modified files.

o Added checks for appropriate queue membership and activity when
adding, removing, and searching the scheduling queues. These
checks add very little overhead and are enabled when compiled
with _PTHREADS_INVARIANTS defined. Suggested and implemented
by Tor Egge with some modification by me.

o Close a race condition in uthread_close. (Tor Egge)

o Protect the scheduling queues while modifying them in
pthread_cond_signal and _thread_fd_unlock. (Tor Egge)

o Ensure that when a thread gets a mutex, the mutex is on that
threads list of owned mutexes. (Tor Egge)

o Set the kernel-in-scheduler flag in _thread_kern_sched_state
and _thread_kern_sched_state_unlock to prevent a scheduling
signal from calling the scheduler again. (Tor Egge)

o Don't use TAILQ_FOREACH macro while searching the waiting
queue for threads in a sigwait state, because a change of
state destroys the TAILQ link. It is actually safe to do
so, though, because once a sigwaiting thread is found, the
loop ends and the function returns. (Tor Egge)

o When dispatching signals to threads, make the thread inherit
the signal deferral flag of the currently running thread.
(Tor Egge)

Submitted by: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> and
Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@fast.no>


# 44963 23-Mar-1999 jb

[ The author's description... ]

o Runnable threads are now maintained in priority queues. The
implementation requires two things:

1.) The priority queues must be protected during insertion
and removal of threads. Since the kernel scheduler
must modify the priority queues, a spinlock for
protection cannot be used. The functions
_thread_kern_sched_defer() and _thread_kern_sched_undefer()
were added to {un}defer kernel scheduler activation.

2.) A thread (active) priority change can be performed only
when the thread is removed from the priority queue. The
implementation uses a threads active priority when
inserting it into the queue.

A by-product is that thread switches are much faster. A
separate queue is used for waiting and/or blocked threads,
and it is searched at most 2 times in the kernel scheduler
when there are active threads. It should be possible to
reduce this to once by combining polling of threads waiting
on I/O with the loop that looks for timed out threads and
the minimum timeout value.

o Functions to defer kernel scheduler activation were added. These
are _thread_kern_sched_defer() and _thread_kern_sched_undefer()
and may be called recursively. These routines do not block the
scheduling signal, but latch its occurrence. The signal handler
will not call the kernel scheduler when the running thread has
deferred scheduling, but it will be called when running thread
undefers scheduling.

o Added support for _POSIX_THREAD_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING. All the
POSIX routines required by this should now be implemented.
One note, SCHED_OTHER, SCHED_FIFO, and SCHED_RR are required
to be defined by including pthread.h. These defines are currently
in sched.h. I modified pthread.h to include sched.h but don't
know if this is the proper thing to do.

o Added support for priority protection and inheritence mutexes.
This allows definition of _POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_PROTECT and
_POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_INHERIT.

o Added additional error checks required by POSIX for mutexes and
condition variables.

o Provided a wrapper for sigpending which is marked as a hidden
syscall.

o Added a non-portable function as a debugging aid to allow an
application to monitor thread context switches. An application
can install a routine that gets called everytime a thread
(explicitly created by the application) gets context switched.
The routine gets passed the pthread IDs of the threads that are
being switched in and out.

Submitted by: Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>

Changes by me:

o Added a PS_SPINBLOCK state to deal with the priority inversion
problem most often (I think) seen by threads calling malloc/free/realloc.

o Dispatch signals to the running thread directly rather than at a
context switch to avoid the situation where the switch never occurs.


# 39808 30-Sep-1998 jb

Cosmetic cleansing. This code requires extra work to keep the garbage
collector thread running after a fork.


# 38925 07-Sep-1998 alex

Removed unused variables.


# 35614 02-May-1998 jb

Cleanup in the child, not the parent.

Submitted by: Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@idi.ntnu.no>


# 35509 29-Apr-1998 jb

Change signal model to match POSIX (i.e. one set of signal handlers
for the process, not a separate set for each thread). By default, the
process now only has signal handlers installed for SIGVTALRM, SIGINFO
and SIGCHLD. The thread kernel signal handler is installed for other
signals on demand. This means that SIG_IGN and SIG_DFL processing is now
left to the kernel, not the thread kernel.

Change the signal dispatch to no longer use a signal thread, and
call the signal handler using the stack of the thread that has the
signal pending.

Change the atomic lock method to use test-and-set asm code with
a yield if blocked. This introduces separate locks for each type
of object instead of blocking signals to prevent a context
switch. It was this blocking of signals that caused the performance
degradation the people have noted.

This is a *big* change!


# 34772 22-Mar-1998 jb

Fix a problem of indirection unblocking signals that would have caused
signals to be unblocked even if they were already blocked when entering
the function.

Pointed out by: bde


# 34381 09-Mar-1998 jb

When forking a process, only the running thread gets to live. All
other threads never see the light of day and if they leave things
locked, blame POSIX.


# 17706 20-Aug-1996 julian

Submitted by: John Birrell <cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au>

Here are the diffs for libc_r to get it one step closer to P1003.1c
These make most of the thread/mutex/condvar structures opaque to the
user. There are three functions which have been renamed with _np
suffixes because they are extensions to P1003.1c (I did them for JAVA,
which needs to suspend/resume threads and also start threads suspended).

I've created a new header (pthread_np.h) for the non-POSIX stuff.

The egrep tags stuff in /usr/src/lib/libc_r/Makefile that I uncommented
doesn't work. I think its best to delete it. I don't think libc_r needs
tags anyway, 'cause most of the source is in libc which does have tags.

also:

Here's the first batch of man pages for the thread functions.
The diff to /usr/src/lib/libc_r/Makefile removes some stuff that was
inherited from /usr/src/lib/libc/Makefile that should only be done with
libc.

also:

I should have sent this diff with the pthread(3) man page.
It allows people to type

make -DWANT_LIBC_R world

to get libc_r built with the rest of the world. I put this in the
pthread(3) man page. The default is still not to build libc_r.


also:
The diff attached adds a pthread(3) man page to /usr/src/share/man/man3.
The idea is that without libc_r installed, this man page will give people
enough info to know that they have to build libc_r.


# 13546 21-Jan-1996 julian

Reviewed by: julian
Submitted by: john birrel

One version of the pthreads library
another will follow with differnt actions under some cases..
not QUITE complete